James O'Connor (academic), Date of Birth, Date of Death

James O'Connor (academic)

American academic

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1930

Date of Death: 13-Nov-2017

Profession: economist, sociologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

James Richard O'Connor (April 20, 1930 – November 12, 2017) was an American political economist and professor of sociology.He was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief (1988–2003) of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology, and Director of the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz, California.After earning a PhD in economics at Columbia University, and teaching economics at Washington University and San Jose State University, he was among the new faculty hired to initiate the Sociology PhD program at UC Santa Cruz in the mid-70s.
While at San Jose State, O'Connor co-founded and served as Coordinating Editor in the United States as part of the Bay Area Editorial Collective (along with Tasuku Noguchi – Japan, Marino Rigini – Italy, Stephan Liebfried –Germany, Tom Wengraf – Great Britain) of the journal Kapitalistate (1973-1983).He retired from teaching sociology, economics, and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992 but remained active in the graduate program into the early 2000s.